Thursday, November 13, 2014

How to add a Twitter feed to your App Studio app

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I've recently released an app for the UK based charity Toilet Twinning. I wholeheartedly encourage you to support the work they do and twin your toilet now. This post is based on lessons from building that app. The app started life in App Studio but I wanted to add the ability to show tweets from a...

Combining app development and trying to make the world a better place

For a long time, I've been thinking about how app developers, myself in particular, can do more to help make the world a better place. Building apps is all well and good but I often feel that simply having more apps in the various app stores isn't really helping anyone. Couldn't we do more to help make...

Monday, November 03, 2014

Amazon are willing to pay £5 for details of my Facebook friends

<JustWondering> I got this email last week: Glossing over the fact they ignore our 16+ year relationship and can only address me as "Amazon.co.uk Customer". I don't think I can recall another business being so transparent about how much access to my Facebook data is worth. Exactly what data? We'll,...